Improvement in neck-yoke



-E. & 1. c. COVERT.

Neck Yoke.

Patented Jan. 21, 1868.

E. COVERT AND J. 0 COVERT, or FARMER VILLAGE, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 73,581, datdJanuary 21, 186R.

IMPROVEMENT 1N ECK-10 B.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERh T: 4 ,v I

Be it known that w ve, E. C0VEB.T u-hri J. CQCOVERT, of'Farmer Village, in the county of Sencce, End in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neck-Yokes; arid do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, und exact description thereof,-reference being had to the accompanying draw ings, and to. the letters of reference marked thereon In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, A represents a neck-yoke, constructedin any of the knownandusuil ways. 13 represents a. clusp'which surrourids the yoke, lying in thebrozld groove'at its centre, theends of'said clasp embracifig between them the lciither, O, which connects theyoke to the pole. The leather, C, has one end placed Between the eods ,of the clasp, and is there eonfinerlby means of the scrowsdd.

A screw, a, passes through the clospinto the pole, to keep it from turning. e represents'the hole in the leather through which the pole passes. The clasp'B is made of malleable iron or other suitable metol. We make, by this constructioh, a very simple anddurable attachment for is neck-yoke.

What .we claim, isl The metallic clasp B, connecting the leather C, to the heels-yoke A, suhstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereuntmset our hands,,this 15th day ofNovember,-186.'I.

E. COVERT, J. o. COVERT.

Witnesses: Y

O. G, 'WHEELEB, JAB. C. KNIGHT. 

